不过是...

You were tonight's guest, but I'll pay the bill.

是你请的客，我不过是买单的。

Then she might also but a 20 year-old girl , this should be a mother bosom in pettish .another girl .

那时她顶多也不过是个二十来岁の小姑娘，本应是个在母亲怀里撒娇の小姑娘。

There is a gap between what we can in principle be given in perception and any belief about the past. And because in principle we could never be given anything about the past directly, the gap is one that no justified a posteriori inference could bridge. For anything to which we could appeal in support of a hypothesis about the connection between the past and present will simply give us more information about the present. Thus, unless our conception of the past is a form of idealism analogous to phenomenalism regarding the external world, skepticism follows.

在'原则上我们在感知中被给予的'和'任何关于过去的信念'之间有一个gap，又因为在原则上我们不能被直接给予过去的东西，这个gap就没有一个后天『a posteriori』inference能架桥辩护，因为任何可诉诸以支持关于过去和当前的关联的假说的东西，也不过是给我们更多关于当前的信息，如此，除非我们对过去的概念是类似关于外在世界的现象论的这种观念论的一个形式，否则怀疑论就会得到。

If saving is a sin, dissaving must be a virtue; and in any case he is simply making up for the harm being done by the saving of his pinchpenny brother Benjamin.

如果储蓄是一种罪过，不储蓄当然就是一种美德；而且，无论如何，他这么做不过是为了补偿吝啬鬼弟弟本杰明由于储蓄给社会带来的种种损害。

But what of it If saving is a sin, dissaving must be a virtue; and in any case he is simply making up for the harm being done by the saving of his pinchpenny brother Benjamin.

可这对他又算得了什么呢？如果储蓄是一种罪过，不储蓄当然就是一种美德；而且，无论如何，他这么做不过是为了补偿吝啬鬼弟弟本杰明由于储蓄给社会带来的种种损害。

He did expand, however, talking about Rose's playmaking ability above all else.

禅师确实接着说了，不过是说罗斯组织的才能而不是其他乱七八糟的事。

A keeper is only a poacher turned outside in ,and a poacher a keeper turned in side out.

看守人只不过是把表面翻进去的偷猎者，而偷猎者也不过是把里面翻出来的看守人罢了。

Let him not quit his belief that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom

学者应该坚持自己的信仰：气枪的一响不过是啪的一声而已，尽管那些年高者与位高者断定它是世界末日的霹雳。

I am with Karl Popper in the belief that history has no laws, only some occasional recurring patterns.

我赞同卡尔波普尔的信念，即历史是没有规律的，有的不过是一些偶尔重复的轨迹。

This spirit, like all life in the entire universe, is produced by the union of the male, active, positive or yang principle, and the female, passive, negative or yin principle which is really no more than a lucky, shrewd guess at positive and negative electricity.

这神灵和全宇宙的一切生物一样，是由男性的，主动的，正的，或阳的成分，和女性的，被动的，负的，或阴的成分，两者结合而产生出来的——这事实上不过是对阴阳电的原理的一种巧妙而侥幸的猜测吧了。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。